Improvement in fagoting railroad-rails



UNITED STATES PATENT Canica,

IILLIAM LEWIS, JOHN PRICE, AND FRANCIS NAYLOR, vOFA DANVILLE,

A PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN FAGOTING RAILROAD-RAILS.

Specillcation forming part of Letters .Patent No. 43,59 3, dated July19, 1864.

To all whom it muy concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM LEWIS, JOHN PRICE, and FEANcIs NAYLOR, ofDanville, in the county of Monteur, and State of Pennsylvania, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Piles for Iron-Rolling; and wedo hereby declare that the following is -a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art tofully understand and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawing, fo'rming a part of this specication. Said drawingrepresenting a side elevation of our improvement.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

Our invention relates to a method of forining the piles orfagots ofshort bariron preparatory to welding and re rolling.

In the Ie-rolling of railroad rails or the rolling of bar-iron from oldrailroad-rails, considerable trouble and inconvenience has always heenexperienced in forming, combining, and keeping together the shortlengths of' the old rails in suitable piles or i'agots while undergoingthe process ot' reheating in the reverberatory furnace. This difficultyhas been duc to the peculiar irregular form ot' the rails, which is suchthat the short bars thereof cannot be piled or fagoed like rectangularbars and are therefore liable to fall apart when submitted to the actionot' the furnace and the disturbance of charging the same during theheating operation.

The object of our invention is to obviate the above difficulty, and wesucceed in combining the said short bars of old rails into compact pilesor i'agots in the following manner: We first provide a bottom "plate orlayer, A, of corrugated folm, as shown, made of old rails, puddled iron,or reheated puddled iron; and upon the bottom plate, A, we lay insidewise position, the railbars B B, the projections a a in plate Atting into the necks of the rails, and the heads of the rails iittinginto the depressions b b of the plate A, as shown. Upon the upper sidesof the bars B B we now lay, in

sidewise position, two other rail-bars, C C, the bases ot which abutagainst each other, and their heads tit into the necks ot the rails B Bunderneath them. Upon the bars C C are now placed two more rail-bars, DD, with their heads turned inward and iitted into the necks otl the barsC C underneath them, as shown, and upon the top of the bars D D we nowplace a corrugated top plate, A', of which the end projections, a' a',iit into the necks ot' the rails D D, and the heads of the rails D D titinto the depressions b' b' of plate A', as shown. The severalprojectionsA and depressions of the plates A A', with the .rails laidupon them and upon eachother, as shown, interlock with each so as toform a trm, compact pile, which cannot easily be broken apart by thecharging` or other disturbances during the heating operation, and whichis easy to move and place in the rolls; and it is not liable tolaminate, owing to the close interlocking` of the several bars. The topplate, A', which is to form the head or upper surface ofthe bar or rail,may be made ot different or peculiar metal from the body, it' desirable.'Ihe said plate A'- may he composed of re-heated iron or steel, or abovethe plate A' there may be placed still another plate composed ot' ametal havingsuch qualities as it may be desired to impart to theupper'surt'ace of the rolled bar or rail.

We do notconne ourselves to the use of any particular size otlcorrugated plates A A', nor to any particular number of interlockingrails.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent- The formation ot` piles or fagots forrerolling by the combination ot' the corrugated top and bottoni plates,A A', with the interlocking rail-bars, all in the manner substantiallyas herein shown and described.

WM. LEWIS. JOHN PRICE. FRANCIS NAYLOR.

Vitnesses:

HENRY B. STRIGKLAND, C. LEwIs.

